Chapter 264: Survival at Sea, Day 12 (6) The First Step to the Truth…
In modern times, medical care is very advanced and people have long lifespans. Many wealthy people rely on uploading their consciousness to prolong their lives, but this requires a healthy brain and a constant supply of high maintenance costs.
It is said that after uploading consciousness, humans only have a very small space to store consciousness. Currently, there is no technology that can support the free development or activities of consciousness. Therefore, the so-called consciousness uploading is just uploading and saving. The owner of the consciousness is in a long-term dormant state.
When Yu Miaomiao saw this popular science short video, she felt very strange. Since this method can prolong the life of an independent individual, it is nothing more than a long-term sleep. What is the point of preserving the brain?
Here comes the use...
In this cruel apocalypse, as long as everyone is living with consciousness, those who have used the consciousness uploading function and whose brains are preserved can continue to live a colorful life in another virtual world.
If that was the case, why would they arrange such an apocalypse for millions of them? Was it to use the suffering of the survivors as a tool for entertainment, or was it a testing ground for these rich people? Or, as Iris had heard, was there some other intention after elite screening?
Tingting's words made Yu Miaomiao think a lot.
Tingting took off her glasses, revealing the only intact skin around her eyes. Her pair of bright blue eyes, with a Western style, blinked fiercely like needles.
Yu Miaomiao looked at Tingting, who was frowning and trying hard to hide the pain in her eyes. She saw Tingting tear off the bandage that was originally wrapped around her face. Some of the bandages were stuck to the skin, breaking some wounds that had just healed. Except for the area near the eyes, her entire face was covered with thin pink and white flesh, as if it would break if touched.
Yu Miaomiao couldn't bear it and said, "You are like this..."
"Tear it off and apply medicine again, this way... it... will heal faster." Tingting's eyes flashed, and as her hands moved, countless pains surged over her. Every inch of her skin was clamoring with endless stinging sensation. Her hands were suspended in the air, and her movements slowed down unconsciously.
A short pain is worse than a long one. Tingting took out a painkiller and swallowed it in one gulp. She wanted to continue pulling off the bandage, but the pain still prevented her from doing it quickly.
Without blinking, Tingting pulled five painkillers from her backpack and poured them, each about the size of a Malteser, into her mouth. Within seconds of swallowing, the medication took effect, and she calmly said, "You seemed to have a lot on your mind just now. Did you know something? Did Dr. Ji tell you?"
It turns out that Dr. Ji has also contacted Tingting...
As Yu Miaomiao expected, Dr. Ji and Yijian Kaitianmen never put their treasures or chips on the same person.
Tingting in front of her was not used by the other party. Yu Miaomiao felt that it was because of one word: cruel. Tingting had no skills to survive in the apocalypse. She was cruel to the monsters and to herself.
He glanced at the pair of punk glasses that Tingting had placed on the ground. It was also a modern luxury item that Yu Miaomiao couldn't afford with the income she earned after just a few years of work.
I heard that this pair of glasses is a supercomputer. In addition to the basic functions of basic communication and entertainment electronic equipment, it can also know everything, provide various solutions through offline analysis, and even has some additional functions such as infrared detection, face recognition, and voice comparison. However, because this manufacturer only accepts pre-orders from private buyers, it is not allowed to make the product public.
So Yu Miaomiao only knew that it was very expensive and powerful. When being teleported to the end of the world, being able to bring this item along would greatly improve his ability to survive.
"Ha, this is also a gift from Awei. For a job like mine that involves useless research, I definitely can't afford it." Tingting followed Yu Miaomiao's question and remembered the origin of the glasses. The injuries on her body didn't seem to matter much. She simply tore off all the bandages and let new blood flow into the gray beach.
It seems that Awei's job is really "profitable". Behind the huge amount of money are the lives and sufferings of so many people.
Tingting only saw the worry in the girl's eyes. Her heart warmed, but she shrugged nonchalantly and used the high-end medical kits one by one. "Ah Wei signed a confidentiality agreement, so he never told me anything about the apocalypse. It wasn't until he disappeared that I started looking for him, and then I came to this inexplicable world."
Yu Miaomiao did not stop Tingting's behavior, which was similar to a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. She helped Tingting take the bandage behind her, walked around to the front and handed it to her.
"Thank you." Tingting felt a little more favorable towards the girl beside her, and she no longer held back. "Even though he signed that shitty agreement, I came to this crappy place and quickly felt every design footprint of Wei on this system, and thus obtained the hidden treasures and information he left behind."
After Tingting finished spraying the second bottle of medicine, she felt the pain again. She smiled bitterly in her heart, said, "Wait for me," and bit her lip to wrap the remaining bandages.
Drops of sweat seeped through the bandage on Tingting's forehead, mixed with red blood. While her feet were being tied, she couldn't help but take two more painkillers.
Seeing that she was eating even less, Yu Miaomiao said, "Isn't it enough? Do you want me to sell you some?"
"No need, this medicine can only relieve pain to this extent." Tingting sighed and lay down on the sand. She was glad that she was injured in the expedition area and there was no other weird weather to make her situation worse.
While Tingting was resting, Yu Miaomiao killed four more first-generation mermaids. It seemed that there were more and more mermaids coming each time, and it seemed that they would not stay there for long.
"I was indeed a bit reckless just now, but luckily I didn't affect you." Tingting looked at the dark and boundless sky, and was immersed in the image of that time when she and Wei were hugging each other and watching horror movies. "Videotape, this is something you would do, right?"
"Video cassette?" Yu Miaomiao didn't know why the other party suddenly mentioned this, so she explained, "I don't have a machine that can play videotapes, so I haven't seen it yet."
She will use this item for the first time when she returns tonight, in case the other party asks her about something she has never seen before.
Tingting: "That retro playback method was developed by him and me. My job is to study lost civilizations, and he is involved in new technologies, so we combined the two and created a one-of-a-kind realistic video cassette player. No one else has ever seen this thing, so when I saw it, I knew it was Ah Wei's work."
Yu Miaomiao didn't believe that Awei made this thing that required two items to be combined together to use just to reminisce about the sweet times they had together.
"He split the object into two and limited the number of people who could learn the blueprints, in order to make it more difficult for people to obtain it, thereby hiding important information in these cassettes."
What Tingting said explained the doubts in Yu Miaomiao's mind very well, so what was the hidden message?
"Don't look at me like I know everything. I just told you that Wei didn't tell me anything before he disappeared because he signed the agreement." Tingting felt helpless but thankful that she knew her lover well enough. "But in this world where he disappeared, he told me a lot."
The two talked for more than ten minutes. Yu Miaomiao felt that these contents were just the tip of the iceberg of what Tingting knew. She was the first step closer to the truth of the end of the world. She made the right decision to bring this person in.
"So...what do you think the end of the world is like?"
Yu Miaomiao wanted to know if what Tingting knew was different from what Iris saw.
Unexpectedly, Tingting shook her head and said, "I don't know. Maybe I don't know as much as Dr. Ji."
"I don't know." Yu Miaomiao repeated. This Ah Wei really did a good job of keeping secrets. "Then do you know if we can go back? Or, after collecting all those cards, can we really go back?"
As she spoke, her tone became a little anxious.
After so many days and so much effort, Yu Miaomiao also wants to get a definite answer.
"Yes." Tingting said firmly, "Of course I can. Awei left this information just to get me to go back. I believe him."
It was a positive answer. Although it was mostly subjective, Yu Miaomiao felt relieved. She continued to ask, "Have you been to Devil's Bay?"
Tingting widened her eyes and said in disbelief: "Could it be that you also..."
Halfway through her conversation, Tingting quickly lowered her head and whispered, "Did you also get the incognito mode function?"
If that was the case, she could get twice the result with half the effort. Tingting had just begun to plan how to use their abilities when she heard Meowth say, "No... I failed to pass the Prank Cave."
"Yeah." Tingting thought about it and it was normal. How could ordinary people pass through that place? Although there was Awei's shadow in that exploration site, it was more like a place created by an unfamiliar Awei. If she hadn't been rewarded with the invisible mode in the end, she would have wanted to catch Awei who didn't exist in the void and ask him what kind of twisted design this was.
"So the information about Devil's Bay was also left by your lover Awei? And the hidden task that almost everyone of us will receive when we kill the flashing monster at the beginning?" Yu Miaomiao immediately brought up a new topic, not wanting to stay in that regret.
Tingting still threw out a subjective statement: "From what I know about Wei, yes, but the notes he left me didn't mention this. He just told me how to get various supplies, especially... telling me not to be impulsive."
But she still acted impulsively, because she knew that as long as she got the Adventure Card, she could...
"What does the note say? Can you tell me, and why are you so anxious to get the bound adventure card today?" The other party left a written message, so the so-called suicide note was written to Tingting, asking her to find this note. And seeing that Tingting was so anxious, could it be that she could get a card to restore the world order in this way?
When Tingting heard Yu Miaomiao ask this, her ears instantly turned red and she coughed, "Because Ah Wei said that if I could cooperate with others and get a bound adventure card from someone else's adventure property, a scene would appear where I could interact with it, so I..."
Ah Wei really put a lot of thought into such a special condition, but Yu Miaomiao immediately thought of another possibility, "Have you been to the Dark Oasis?"
Tingting's face darkened slightly when she mentioned this. "After joining this project, Ah Wei had almost no time for himself. He was constantly on video conferences and couldn't reply to messages. Later, his personality changed drastically. After an argument with me, he moved in with the company. Our relationship did improve, but he's changed. He's become taciturn and extremely irritable. One time, I was so angry that I eavesdropped on one of his conference calls. I learned that he was working on an anthropomorphic animal based on existing data. This led to the confrontation with the ostrich man I later encountered in the Dark Oasis."
In fact, Tingting said this not only to tell Awei's story, but also to tell Yu Miaomiao that she was not bewitched by the ostrich man, so the hidden information discovered now was definitely not expressed by artificial intelligence calculations.
Of course, Tingting saw the admiration in Yu Miaomiao's eyes and puffed out her chest. "Ah Wei always said I was green and inexperienced, but how could I be green and inexperienced at 40? I deal with inanimate objects every day, and inanimate objects can't talk and can be maliciously manipulated, but what's true is true, and it can't be faked. Isn't this where I can really use my strengths?"
Forty years old?
You really can't tell, but modern people are really good at maintaining themselves. Even her cat cafe owner, who is almost 50 years old, looks like Sister Yu Miaomiao.
As long as you have money, everything is fine in reality. This is why some people who did not do well in their original society come here and gain unprecedented experiences and admiration from others, so they are reluctant to leave.
It has been three hours since they came to Fishman Island. Yu Miaomiao needs to go back before dark. This is also the promise she made with Xiaoguai. She believes that after this adventure is over and Tingting trusts her, she will provide more complete information.
"Then let's go and tell Wei in person how great you are now." Yu Miaomiao stood up and extended her hand to Tingting. "Or do you need to go back and recuperate? I'll invite you next time."
Taking painkillers and repeatedly using advanced medical kits to make herself recover faster was an invisible way of telling Yu Miaomiao that Tingting could continue, and no matter how many difficulties there were, they could not stop her from getting the adventure card.
It would be a win-win for both parties, and we could also learn more from Tingting's conversation with Awei as soon as possible. If that damn Yang Haotian becomes the first person to take Tingting to get the adventure card, it would be a waste of time.
Tingting firmly grasped the wrist of the girl in front of her who had seemed much more relaxed from the beginning, and smiled mischievously, "Then I would like to ask Sister Miaomiao for your guidance—"
Tingting did not show Yu Miaomiao all the system interfaces, but displayed all the system notifications.
She glanced at it casually and found that in addition to the prizes from drawing cards, there were also many additional system notifications, indicating that Tingting really got a lot of secret treasures.
After checking the supplies, it was confirmed that there was no problem. Tingting put on a simple protective film to prevent the bandage from getting wet, then put on soft armor and was ready to go.
After Tingting changed the dressing twice, she did stop bleeding, but is it really okay?
But Tingting's eyes were as firm as if she had entered...Yu Miaomiao didn't ask any more questions.
In the following expeditions, Yu Miaomiao resolutely walked ahead and made all the battle plans to avoid encountering monsters that were too difficult to deal with at once.
The two of them marched rhythmically all the way to the next lake filled with red flocs of seaweed.
The terrain of Fishman Island is very simple, with almost straight open roads. Apart from the cliffs on both sides of the road, there is gray sand. There are no plants and no other buildings. If it weren't for the dim environment here, the front would be covered with a layer of gray mist.
The ones you meet on the road are all first-generation murlocs, the ones in the lake are second-generation ones, and after crossing another lake, you will encounter a difficult medium-sized murloc. Iris and Huabie both stopped on this murloc.
I don’t think it will be difficult to go down to the lake this time, except that there will be a lot of seaweed.
Yu Miaomiao was curious about how Tingting knew the number of treasure chests in the lake, so she asked directly: "Do you have a way to check the situation of nearby treasure chests?"
There is an exact number and location of treasure chests, making it easier to find them.
"Well, I have a solution, but I can't tell you the reason, sorry." Tingting immediately reported the current situation in the lake to Yu Miaomiao, "There are three treasure chests here, 3 meters to the west, 1 meter to the southeast, and 5 meters to the north."
It's so detailed, it seems that there is special equipment or ability. Is it the glasses on Tingting's head, or the special ability? Yu Miaomiao didn't ask much, but directly gave the combat plan.
The two of them went into the lake one after another. This time, Yu Miaomiao dived into the water first. She looked back at Tingting's situation. The result was just as she expected. The moment she entered the water, the fishmen around her swarmed over as if they had smelled delicious food.
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